Characters

• Dr Jekyll

  Eponymous character number one, Henry Jekyll is a respectable and well-regarded professional whose perfectly reasonable belief that within each character there exists both good and evil leads to him conducting some less well-reasoned scientific experiments that are responsible for creating...
• Mr Hyde

  Eponymous character number two, Edward Hyde is the physical manifestation of Jekyll's dark side; a small, deformed, malevolent creature described as 'pure evil' by his creator, who was at least successful in his quest to separate the duality of man.
• Mr Utterson


  A respectable middle-aged lawyer and old friend of Jekyll, many of the events follow his rational and balanced perspective.
• Mr Enfield


  Utterson's cousin who witnesses Hyde's initial crime and accompanies Utterson in walking past Hyde's mysterious door.
• Dr Lanyon


  An erstwhile colleague of Jekyll, he has strong morals and renounces his former friend's scientific heresy.
• Poole


  Jekyll's faithful butler.
• Sir Danvers Carew


  A distinguished MP brutally murdered by Mr Hyde.
• Mr Guest


  Utterson's clerk revels in unravelling the secrets of Dr Jekyll by comparing his handwriting to Mr Hyde's.